Mr Monkey visits Alki Beach, 28th January

"I approve of preserving things, but not when I want to see them"

As he walked along the seafront Mr Monkey had been looking for a small replica of the Statue of Liberty, one of 200 put up by the Boy Scouts of America between 1949 and 1952. Instead, he found a plinth and a sign telling him that someone had taken the statue away for recasting, because it was falling to pieces and people kept breaking bits off. Sulking slightly, Mr Monkey ignored a monument to the birthplace of Seattle, and walked up to Alki Point. He peered through a fence at the Alki Point lighthouse.